28 June, 2016

Iglesias made the same mistake as Tsipras

The results
of Sunday's elections in Spain didn't bring anything new.
Unexpectedly, the People's Party of Mariano Rajoy gained 14 more
seats (137) compared to previous elections, yet still far from the
176 seats required to form government.

Although
Podemos managed to build a coalition with the United Left and other
Leftist forces, forming Unidos Podemos, remained in third place with
71 seats. No much difference since the last elections in December
2015.

It would be
unnatural to expect from the voters who voted for establishment
(PP/PSOE) to change in only six months and go to Unidos Podemos. Yet,
Iglesias made the same mistake as Tsipras in Greece. He actually
ignored the truly disappointed Spanish voters who have chosen not to
vote, and tried not to frighten the moderate pro-establishment voters
in order to attract them.

As mentioned
previously “Corbyn,
Iglesias, Tsipras, and others from the moderate European Left have
made completely wrong diagnosis of where things are going. They think
that a possible Brexit will be a significant loss against their
dreams of a united Europe inside the framework of the Leftist
internationalism. They live with the illusion that Europe can change
course towards this type of internationalism, while in reality Europe
has been directed with high-speed to the exactly opposite direction:
the neoliberal internationalism through which the banking-corporate
neo-Feudalism will soon become a reality.”

Being part
of the moderate Left, Iglesias has exactly the same illusions as
Tsirpas. Not only he thinks that the current EU monster could be
transformed into a Union that will truly serve its citizens under the
lobby-occupied Brussels regime, but also that this can be achieved
through "sincere" negotiations with the euro-hyenas.

Consequently,
the European Left didn't dare to lead the battle against the EU
neoliberal monster, starting from Brexit. So, the extreme
nationalists exploited this fact to appear in the front line of
another big battle.

Iglesias,
Tsipras and others appear unable to understand that playing the
moderate card won't lead anywhere. SYRIZA already has been
transformed into a Social-Democratic entity that is forced to take
further cruel measures for the majority of the Greek citizens. They
don't understand that millions of disappointed voters won't buy the
"revolutionary" speeches in campaigns by the Leftist
leaders, when at the same time these sit on the same table to
“negotiate” with EU's/eurozone's black priesthood.

Both SYRIZA
and Podemos will start to decline into a stagnating situation by the
fact that they are unable to attract millions of disappointed voters
while try to achieve the impossible: create a humanitarian Europe
through “negotiations” with the representatives of bankers and
lobbyists.

The only way
to escape from this situation is to declare, together with the
European Left, a real war on these bankers and lobbyists, throwing
out of the game the dangerous nationalists. Otherwise, the Left will
be vanished again, and the nightmare of the Far-Right will start
dominating Europe.

1 comment:

As much as evidence points to total disillusionment with the Socialist and Social Democratic "Left" after the debacles of Labor in Britain, Podemos in Spain, and Syriza in Greece, I am dreadfully afraid the populace will come back to them when all other right-wing options burn them, as they always do. Unless there is a renewed birth of a real "Left", the script will play out.